revanchelag
/rɪˈvɑːnʃəˌlæɡ/nounVerified NewThe delay between a national or personal humiliation and the moment its revenge arrives at the ballot box.
*Revanche* is rarely instantaneous; it matures silently through election cycles and surfaces years later, surprising elites who believed the wound had healed.
Etym. — *revanche* + *lag*, importing latency into a nineteenth-century concept.
Rel. — midtermnesia
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